Nick Greer

Biography

Nick Greer is a writer and data analyst living in and originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. He holds an MFA Creative Writing from the University of Arizona and BAs in Mathematics and Music from Williams College.

His writing has been published in Gulf Coast, wildness, BOAAT, and Phantom, among other venues. His chapbook, Glass City, won The Calvino Prize and was published by Salt Hill in 2016.

He is an editor for Territory, a literary project about maps and other strange objects, and Goodnight, Sweet Prince, a digital literary zine about side characters in movies and other media.

Current projects include a novel about a young woman who drifts in and out of the early 80s Vancouver hardcore scene and a series of poems written as postcards from mythologized places.

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Projects

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Territory (2015-) is a literary journal about maps and other strange objects. To explore, click the logo below.

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Goodnight, Sweet Prince (2017-) is a digital zine about side characters, bit parts, cameos, and the rest of the supporting cast. To check it out, click the logo below.

Glass City

Glass City is an ever-expanding project documenting the hyperrealities of the modern city.

Like the city it documents, Glass City exists in many forms.

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As a story collection, Glass City won the The Calvino Prize in 2015 and was published in Salt Hill 37. Martin McLaughlin, the judge of The Calvino Prize, had this to say about the collection:

This work took up the major demanding Calvinian theme of the modern (fantasy) city, but it makes the reader think about the problems of the real cities we live in and does so with humour and an often poetic style and rhythm (just like Calvino's own Invisible Cities), echoing his fondness for poetic triads of nouns and verbs, but all done in a new way for the 21st century

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As a physical object, Glass City is an artist's book that doubles as a three-dimensional model of the city.

To date, two copies have been made. The first lives in the Rare Book Collection at the University of Arizona Poetry Center. The second lives in the Bridwell Art Library at the University of Louisville. The book is printed on transparency paper (14.8 x 21 cm) and bound in two panes of glass (21 x 26 cm).

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The project's newest incarnation is a digital chapbook to be released in 2018.